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George Altankov

George Altankov MD, PhD, DSc

Molecular Biology
Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain

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Dr. George graduated from the Higher Medical Institute, Varna, Bulgaria in 1974 starting his research carrier as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physiology in the same Institute. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1984 he joined the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Biophysics Sofia) where he got his first habilitation as Associate Professor (1994) and grew up to Full Professor (2002), head of Department "Cell Adhesion" and Research Director. He is an interdisciplinary-oriented scientist working in the field of cell-biomaterial interaction and tissue engineering. In 1991-1993 he got his postdoc in Southwestern Medical Center Dallas. During the following decade, he spent more than 7 years as a guest-scientist in Germany, and later almost 2 years in Spain as visiting Professor at UPC. Since April 2007 he is a Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) heading the research group Molecular Dynamics at Cell-Biomaterials Interface.